Dana Ferguson
speaker
325 appearances
28 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 12 Aug
Dana Ferguson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 26 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 8.
Appearances
But for folks who aren't from here, this has been going on.
It started at the beginning of December when the Trump administration said it was going to crack down on immigration and fraud issues here in Minnesota.
So this has been a long term thing.
The presence on the ground now is much less.
Yeah.
You mentioned earlier that small businesses are responding and putting like signs up in windows.
It's pretty common and it's not, again, just in the Twin Cities.
There are suburban and greater Minnesota businesses that are not able to staff up to do what they need to right now.
A lot of restaurants have closed.
I just saw a Facebook post for a Mexican restaurant in the town where I live just outside of Minneapolis closed.
saying that they have to close for a while, hoping folks are understanding about that.
There have been a lot of places where folks have put up signs of support on those businesses or made sure to buy gift cards or do volunteer shifts to help them to make sure that they stay in business because
restaurant businesses, that's a really difficult industry and being out for a matter of weeks can make or break a business.
So it's just a hard hit for a lot of folks.
And a lot of these places that are being particularly impacted are along Lake Street in Minneapolis.
And that's a corridor that was really, really hit hard.
At the same time, there are some really big companies headquartered in the Twin Cities that have been awfully silent, it seems.
That's right.
We have a number of Fortune 500 companies that are based here, Target, 3M, many others.
And we have reached out at NPR to hear from these big organizations to hear, you know, why aren't we seeing more of a response from you as community leaders?
Showing 101–120 of 325 · page 6 of 17
← Previous
Next →